TMU CSR Institute zoom session: Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics and the Law: a Legal Practitioner's Perspective -- In conversation with Kenneth Jull

The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility at Toronto Metropolitan University*(TMU) is pleased to present an online interactive zoom talk, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics and the Law: a Legal Practitioner's Perspective -- In conversation with Kenneth Jull on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm, Toronto time (details below).

To register (no cost, everyone welcome) click HERE (external link)  then press the "reserve a spot" button.

To access the zoom on Tuesday, March 12 at 12 noon (Toronto time), click HERE (external link)  to patch in for the live session. This session is exclusively a zoom event: there is no in-person component.

Information will be provided during the session re: how to submit questions.

About this talk

Corporate social responsibility embodies the moral and right thing to do. There is also evidence that corporate social responsibility increases profitability. Despite this, there is behavioral research that shows that some corporations attempt to trick and deceive their customers. A granular example of this is “drip-pricing,” a pricing technique in which firms advertise only part of a product's price and reveal other charges later as the customer goes through the buying process. Drip pricing is considered by the Canadian Competition Bureau to be false or misleading, unless the additional fixed charges or fees are imposed by the government, such as sales tax. As a result of amendments to the Competition Act in June 2022, drip pricing is now expressly recognized as a harmful business practice under the law, in both the criminal and civil track streams. This talk will use the example of drip-pricing to explore the interface between corporate social responsibility and regulatory intervention.

About the Speaker, Kenneth Jull

Mr. Jull is a Partner at Gardiner Roberts LLP and completed a two-year interchange with the Competition Bureau Legal Services in Ottawa in the position of General Counsel from 2016-2018. Mr. Jull is the co-author of Profiting From Risk Management and Compliance (Thomson Reuters 2023, Co-Author is the Honourable Todd Archibald). A Student Edition of this text is used in a course taught by Mr. Jull at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, entitled "Financial Crimes and Corporate Compliance" and at the graduate level at Osgoode Hall Law School. Mr. Jull conducts compliance reviews and litigates disputes which have a compliance component. This risk and compliance practice includes mergers and acquisitions review and spans a spectrum of diverse subject areas ranging from competition law to regulatory standards in areas such as the environment and telecommunications. As part of risk management, Mr. Jull provides advice to organizations with respect to a due diligence matrix for compliance. The matrix is based on a mathematical model which incorporates new behavioral research. Mr. Jull has litigated cases at all levels of Courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and Courts of Appeals in areas including constitutional and tax law, telecommunications, securities oppression, environmental offences, misleading/deceptive advertising and civil/ criminal fraud. Mr. Jull is listed in the Who’s Who Legal-Canada Report 2022, Business Crime Defence. Mr. Jull is a Graduate of University of Toronto (Victoria College) 1978, Osgoode Hall Law School, (LL.B., 1981) (LL.M., 1985).

The talk is co-sponsored by the TMU Corporate Social Responsibility Student Society, and the TMU Law and Business Student Association.

About the Moderator, Prof Kernaghan Webb

Dr. Kernaghan Webb is an Associate Professor in the Toronto Metropolitan University Department of Law and Business, and is the Director of the TMU Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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TMU CSR Institute in the News

Upcoming Lakehead lecture series to focus on ethics (external link)  OrilliaMatters.com - February 2024--The Lakehead Lecture series will close on February 28 with a talk by Dr. Kernaghan Webb, a professor of law and business at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and the director of the TMU Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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